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Lumifer comments on Stupid Questions December 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: Gondolinian 08 December 2014 03:39PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 12 December 2014 04:42:22PM 0 points [-]

Quite often the difference between the top 10 percent is higher than the difference of the people between 45% and 55%.

IQ scales have more people in the middle than on the edges.

Comment author: Lumifer 12 December 2014 04:59:25PM 2 points [-]

As far as I remember, IQs are normalized ranks so to answer the question which 10% is "wider" you need to define by which measure.